Spike: X11 forwarding over SSM Session Manager to EC2s

[davidkelliott]

User Story

As a user of MP I want to use X11 forwarding To run GUI installers on EC2s

User Type(s)

MP Users

Value

Establish a pattern for users doing legacy installs.

Questions / Assumptions / Hypothesis

Proposal

Spike to find out if this is possible, if it is then document how to do it.

Definition of done

• [ ] establish if X11 forwarding is possible
• [ ] user docs have been updated
• [ ] another team member has reviewed
• [ ] tests are green
• [ ] UR test OR added to continual research plan

Reference

How to write good user stories

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[dms1981]

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/how-to-enable-x11-forwarding-from-red-hat-enterprise-linux-rhel-amazon-linux-suse-linux-ubuntu-server-to-support-gui-based-installations-from-amazon-ec2/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-port-forwarding-using-aws-system-manager-sessions-manager/

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[mikereiddigital]

@davidkelliott @SimonPPledger - this is something I could look into as I'm familiar with the mechanics of X11 and SSM. So let me know if that's ok.

[dms1981]

Further to this, it looks like it's quite possible to forward X11 over SSH through SSM - https://github.com/aws/session-manager-plugin/issues/66

[SimonPPledger]

see the above link explaining how to do this